The tests in our long-term care facilities are of major concern to us. We are continuing to increase the security around the long-term care facilities where we have high levels of transmission in some communities. There are more and more cases coming in, usually through the staff, volunteers and essential visitors.
We're putting in strident measures to make sure that, first of all with the security guard in some of the lockdown zones, people are asked about a history of signs and symptoms. They have to show proof of having had a test done. It's not just attestation anymore; they have to show that they've had a test in the last week. We're going to weekly testing, and we're talking about whether we would have to go up to even twice weekly tests with some of the rapid tests in there. We have not yet implemented that.
Regardless of the steps we put in, there still seem to be infections coming into these locations, and once it gets in there, it spreads quite quickly, so we have to put as many barriers around them as we can.
If people coming in from the outside—who are not staff members or essential visitors who are registered and noted in the log—don't have proof of testing, they will not be allowed to enter the facility.
In green and yellow zones, it is less stringent. There's a variation across the province, but we're trying to put these measures in. We're going to implement a rapid-test methodology. We're going to have to make sure that it's done with the proper sequential timing to ensure that we rule out any misgivings of the test as in false negatives. Right now you have to get those other tests done.